Hallyu and World Peace

By Chung Hyo Lee

The books attempts to depict hallyu as a global thermal force transforming the mindset of whole humanity to be conducive to the realization of world peace.

Each essay tries to point out salient features of selective countries directly or indirectly elucidating the road to world peace.

My great regret is that due to my advanced age and manifold disabilities, the number of countries are curtailed.

The book tries to illuminate the various roads to reach the promised land.

The work is a personal journey in the darkness groping ways to reach the utopia.
This work is a confessional memoir.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669838975

Chung Hyo Lee

ABOUT THE AUTHOR • BORN IN JAPAN IN 1936 • BA & MA ECON, SEOUL NATIONAL U. • MA ECON, U OF TORONTO • PHD ECON, HANKOOK U. OF FOREIGN STUDIES, SEOUL • SENIOR ECONOMIST, GOV. OF CANADA, OTTAWA • TAUGHT AT SOONCHUNHYANG U. SOUTH KOREA • RETIRED AND LIVES IN LONDON, ONTARIO • MARRIED; SPOUSE, BONG-IN LEE (BORN IN 1937). BONG GOT HER MA OF HEALTH ADMIN (MHA) AT OTTAWA U. OTTAWA, CANADA • DAUGHTER, SUYA GOT HER PHD IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA; LIVES THERE WITH HER SPOUSE, STEVE ELLIS.

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HALLYU AND

WORLD PEACE

Chung Hyo Lee

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Dedicated

To My Beloved Bong In Lee (née JERN)

and

to the global hallyu fandom and worldwide pacifiers

Author’s family (Steve, Suya, Bong,

Chung, from the left) 2017

Our Backyard

Chung and Bong

HALLYU AND WORLD PEACE

C. H. Lee

CONTENTS

Prologue

Essay 1   Papal Bulls: Warping Western Mind

Essay 2   South Korea: K-Miracle

Essay 3   USA: From a Promised Land to a Kakotopia

Essay 4   The UK: Old Tree Wrapped with Unwritten Traditions

Essay 5   Canada: From Colonial Kleptocracy (Theft Regime) to TRC and Papal Apology

Essay 6   Switzerland: Land of Referendums

Essay 7   Japan: Westernized Land of Samurai

Essay 8   Russia: Land of Eurasian Super Power Dreams

Essay 9   China: Confucian and Xi Jinping’s Dreams

Essay 10 Nature and Two Bodhisattvas

Essay 11 Why These Essays? My Mini-Autobiography Tells Childhood

Epilogue

PROLOGUE

How can humans live in harmony with each other?

No matter whether Homo sapiens try to live together in peace, the end result is the same.

Durable peace has been hegemonic peace, the peace imposed by victors who indulge in the spoils. Indulgent victors will rarely be replaced by new victors.

Most often, wars after bloody wars ensue after the collapse of hegemony (dominance by one state. Hegemon: Gr. Leader).

This scenario is valid in historical times and, as I believe, will be valid until we all demise one after other in an uninhabitable planet in toxic, choking atmospheric or climatic states.

In erstwhile times, Haida and fellow tribes on the Northwestern Pacific Coast had lived over ten millenniums in harmony with each other until the whites grabbed their sacred lands and enslaved them and destroyed their ways of living, beliefs, and languages, and, above all, the sacred earth.

The whites are mighty proud of their colonization and of having become the masters over the natives. They disdained the half-human natives for their inferior civilizations.

North American colonizer governments, with their self-proclaimed so-called laws," the Indian Act (which is a bastard child of the ill-begotten doctrine of discovery) in Canada, declared:

The whole lands the whites illegally grabbed belong to their colonial Christian governments.

The whites’ governments can legally get rid of the native.

Naturally, the natives disagreed.

Resulting conflicts between colonizers and natives ensued. Of course, war after war, the whites won with superior weapons. Defeated Natives were corralled into reserves or reservations and their kids (aged three to early twenties) were torn away from their own parents and families and put into torture chambers called Indian boarding schools in USA or residential schools in Canada. These schools were run by the military in USA and by Christian churches funded by the federal government in Canada.

Abducted kids were subjected to all kinds of harsh treatments including physical, emotional, spiritual, and sexual abuses. Many of these kids perished amid malnourishment (in extreme cases, one piece of bread a day), by contagious diseases, especially tuberculosis and measles, and pneumonia, in congested unhygienic accommodations and lack of medical care. Still, surviving kids made coffins for their fellow students. Most of the perished children were buried unmarked in the ground of the schools/churches. Their parents, who usually never saw their kids again, were never notified. The coffin could be returned to the family, but to save the transport cost, the churches did not.

Dear reader, shut your eyes and try to envision yourself in those heartrending situations.

One UN Global Scale Report reported on native or Indigenous boarding schools covering the whole world. This report, particularly, reprimanded North American boarding school systems’ inhumanities as the worst kinds.

Details of these historical atrocities in North America, by now, are fully exposed. Especially, Canada has voluminous, deep, countless personal stories told by victims during numerous investigations during the last half century in Canada. The most authoritative investigator, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), reached the conclusion that events in these boarding schools constituted genocides. UN nowadays echoes this verdict and demands more and more thorough investigations.

Genocides, physical or otherwise, are still going on, a continuous process in the making in North America (and elsewhere).

Canada is unique in that the government, including courts and churches, officially acknowledged the genocides committed by them. The first country did so.

The TRC report also condemned that both the government and the churches knowingly continued this genocidal praxis until they could not do so anymore under the glaring limelight of TRC reports, adverse reportage of the media, and animosity of the general public, not to mention the whole gamut of the victims’ concerted damaging actions.

Apt analogies are:

A dam poked by tiny crevices in the end crumbled

Or

A house of cards collapsed — a domino chain effect in a time capsule.

In the end, two prime ministers of Canada and churches and the Vatican apologized for these inhumanities and injustices.

In oriental maxim,

Heaven’s vengeance is slow but sure.

To reiterate, this saga coming from Canada is a world-historic event. The event was unheard of in the annals of humanity, indeed.

A great confession in a great western Christian country.

This volume covers many other topics relevant to world peace. I opted to deal with the salient modus operandi of a few pivotal countries in the optics of hallyu.

Hallyu is an emerging concept of hegemon.

Just like hi-tech corporate entities, which I call tech hegemon, a cultural hegemon is a new, globe-girding hegemonic force in the making.

Of course, hallyu is not conventional state power, yet formidable emotive power emanating from the human heart.

The heart is the nuclear reactor of human beings.

In the future, if I still linger on this planet, I may pen more on this immensely fascinating elusive cri du coeur. This planet is in peril of overheating by humans. Ants which have endured hot and cold weathers over hundred millions of years and have survived so far will meet the same